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Last three
Currently reading
Next three

Last three
>The Social Contract - Rosseau
>The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman - Sterne
>A Passage to India - Forster

Currently reading
>The Golden Bough - Frazer
>Candida - Shaw

Next three
>Foundation #1 - Asimov (didn't know it was actually written prior to 1950 until recently)
>Seven Pillars of Wisdom - Lawrence
>The Maltese Fiction - Hammett

Eventually, I'll knock out all of /lit/'s essential pre-1950 works and find some super special gems.

>> No.3165848

>>3165841
Yes I have no time left but to troll /lit/ and post these threads.

I miss the old days

>> No.3165858

You're so pathetic.

>> No.3165862

>>3165858
Thank you.

I only come on /lit/ when I come back from drinking these days.

My life is a fucking joke. But I can bet yours is plenty worse.

>> No.3165867

How'd you like Rousseau?

>> No.3165874

>>3165867
i want to know as well

>> No.3167278

>>3165874
Timeless classic that is one of the most influential texts on democracy as we see it today.

Basics like the people should be sovereign, gaps between upper and lower classes low and his concept of the General Will all made valid points back when such concepts in many parts of the world were unheard of. Although, I could not but note some totalitarian aspects mentioned.

Censorship, particular stuff restricted (which is good, his freedom wasn't complete freedom so as to allow people to just beat the fucking shit out of each other), and other shit.

Governing across differing sizes and types of land was pretty cool.

I think I'm going to throw up now

>> No.3167351

>>3167278
But yeah. Other unnecessarily dense political works would be cool guys.

The State and Revolution by Lenin was pretty boss.

>> No.3167401

Last Three
>The Road by Cormac McCarthy
>On the Road (so many roads) by Jack Kerouac for the second time
>Dharma Bums by Jack Kerouac

Currently Reading
>Desolation Angels by Jack Kerouac to finish out my round of Kerouac

Next Three (very subject to change)
>The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami
>The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemmingway
>100 Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

>> No.3167404

>>3167401
So many American works....

>> No.3167405
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3167405

>>3167401
cant tell if trolling

>> No.3167407

How do you guys find so much time for reading?

I struggle to even read most days & would like to read much more.

I'm also considering getting an eReader to have all my books in one place. Good idea or no?

>> No.3167408

>>3167407
Good idea.

I read a lot more once I got a kindle.

Also, I'm not really working, and recently in a foreign country, alone. Most of the time people are free is at nights or weekends.

>> No.3167409

>>3167405

He's probably just a teenager, those works are normally read around that younger age.

Why would it be a troll?
Everyone has to start somewhere.

>> No.3167415

>>3167405
>>3167409

Well what are you reading?

>> No.3167421

>>3167415

I wasn't being sarcastic or hating on your choices. I'm just saying they're normally books typically read at a younger age.

'100 Years of Solitude' might be exempt, though.

>> No.3167427

>>3167421
I'm not the guy you initially responded to by the way.

>> No.3167434

>>3167421
That person >>3167415 wasn't me, and yes I know all those books are fairly "pleb" by /lit/ standards. The thing is for a while I was reading almost nothing but post-modern and existential literature and I felt like expanding my horizons and felt like I'd missed out on a lot of introductory type books. I've been trying out beat lit, as was evident by my post, which was very hit and miss. I've never read a Hemmingway novel before, so there's that. And magical realism sounds interesting to me as a genre, so there comes in the GGM.

But yes, I am young. Not underage, but young. I'm just trying things out and was starting to get sick of ignoring certain books just because they're considered "entry level" or "pleb" as much of /lit/ does, because I've found there is still much to gain and nothing particularly wrong with those kinds of novels

>> No.3167452

>>3167434

>ignoring certain books just because they're considered "entry level" or "pleb"

Only intellectual frauds do this.
You were right to disregard it.

There's nothing wrong with giving those books a chance, hope you enjoy them.

>> No.3167457

>>3167434
Of all the people not to listen to when it comes to good books, /lit/ crests the list. Like hipster /mu/tants or "world cinema" obsessed "cinephiles," they just obsess over being as obscure as possible without any regard for what is or is not actually good.

Even mainstream material like The Brothers Karamozov is pointless to read at a young age because you almost certainly have no background about Russia in the 19th century when you read it. People just read it at 16 to feel smarter than they are.

>> No.3167459

That's sweet.

Can we all hug now?

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3167466

>>3167457

>People just read it at 16 to feel smarter than they are.

I wouldn't sell them short - teens can be pretty damn bright sometimes

>> No.3167469

>>3167457
>Even mainstream material like The Brothers Karamozov is pointless to read at a young age because you almost certainly have no background about Russia in the 19th century when you read it.
This is a corollary to:
>You will never have perfect or objective knowledge or interpretation of anything you read, so what's the point? Reading is for fags.

>> No.3167471

>>3167457

>/lit/ crests the list

fucking please, /mu/ is far worse

>> No.3167479

>>3167469
No, it's not. I said "at a young age," not "never." For being a board dedicated to literature you people can't read for shit.

>> No.3167476

>>3167471
I didn't realize book recommendations were a common part of /mu/. Brush up on your reading comprehension.

>> No.3167482

>>3167479
>I am the special one for reading it at exactly the right magic age where perfect interpretation is given from on high

>> No.3167484

>>3167476

you were commenting on comparative attitudes towards obscurity in media amongst the different boards. do you even read your own posts? or do you just vomit it out and blindly hit 'submit'?

>Brush up on your reading comprehension.

just stop fucking posting you're clearly an idiot

>> No.3167490

>>3167482
Not that guy, but how was that implied? For all you know he might have read it at a young age and was basing this off his own experiences.

>> No.3167496

>>3167490
Still doesn't explain privileging one interpretation over another based on some arbitrary age. It also doesn't follow from the earlier comment about lacking knowledge on 19th C Russia.

>> No.3167506

Ever heard of the internet? You can learn all you need to know about 19th century Russia for the purposes of reading TBK in like 10 minutes

>> No.3167531

>>3165841
Where's that picture from?

>> No.3167536

>>3167531
caps for sale

>> No.3167538

>>3167531
I swear to God people ask this question every time I post this thread. Are you the same person?

>> No.3167557

last 3:
bagavad ghita
daedejing
epic of gilgamesh

currently reading:
Three Kingdoms: A Historical Novel

next three:
Pride and Prejudice
Jane Eyre
On the Origin of Species

>> No.3167567

>>3167557
What translation of Bhagavad Gita did you read? How did it fare? It's going to be my first Indian work to read

>> No.3167575

>>3167567
I read the oxford world's classic version. It wasn't bad at all. Reads just like any other religious text imho.

>> No.3167578

Last Three:
>We - Zamyatin
>Practical Demonkeeping - Moore
>This Book is Full of Spiders - Wong

Current:
>The Righteous Mind - Haidt
>Both Flesh and Not - The Walrus
>Shadow of A Great Rock - Doom Bloom
>A Dirty Job - Moore

Next Three:
>Forever Flowing - Grossman

Not really sure about the other two.

>> No.3167583

>>3167578
>Forever Flowing

My nigga

>> No.3167587

Last three
>Yu Hua - China in Ten Words (very good)
>Chesterton - Father Brown (very good, bit disappointing though)
>Charles Peguy - Note Conjointe (Pas mal, pas mal)

Currently reading
>L'Ontologie Politique de Martin Heidegger - Pierre Bourdieu (typically convincing)
>Plato - Apology (rereading)

Next up
>Shen Fu - Six Records of a Floating Life
> Sacvan Bercovitch - The American Jeremiad

>> No.3167596

>>3167567
The Barbara Stole MIller one - Bantam? press - I enjoyed. If you want to read further, look into the Swami Gambhirananda translation. It has a phrase by phrase translation accompanied by commentary from an 8th c. CE scholar. Probably not best for a first read but worth it when returning.

>> No.3167599

>>3167587
Happen to have a DL link for Shen Fu's Six Records?

>> No.3167606

>>3167599
No, dammit. Wish I did. Been looking for a copy all over New England. Will have to order it...

>> No.3167617

>>3167606
Fuck

>> No.3167621

>Last
Best Served Cold
The Heroes
Red Country (all by Joe Abercrombie)

>Now
The Heroin Diaries by Nikki Sixx

>Next
Dwarves by Markus Heitz
The Wind Through The Keyhole by Stephen King
House of Leaves by Mark Danielewski

>> No.3167635

>>3167606
If you feel generous, you could buy the ebook version available on Amazon and strip the DRM for everyone.

>> No.3167638

Last Three
>On The Road - Kerouac
>Pirate Cinema - by some shitty author
>Slaughterhouse Five - Vonnegut

Currently Reading
>On The Eve - Ivan Turgenev

Next Three
>Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
>War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
>The Last Chronicle of Barset - Anthony Trollope

>> No.3167653

>Blood Meridian
>HP Lovecrafts short stories
>Farewell to Arms

>Current:
>Gravity's Rainbow
>The Jungle

>Next:
>Infinite Jest
>Ulysses
>"RRRRRIIIAWR!" The Mountain lion screamed. By Trevor Scott Morgan

>> No.3167658

>>3167638
>>3167638
>>3167638
Plebeian.

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3167668

>>3167658
You are a child.

>> No.3167676

>last three
TBK; Demons; I, Claudius

>current
Pynchon's Slow Learner collection

>next
Moby Dick, HoL or some short stories by Melville, Chekhov or Poe. Not sure.

>>3167621
How are you finding The Heroin Diaries?

>> No.3167678

Last three
The Third Industrial Revolution - Jeremy Rifkin
How Music Works - David Byrne
Future Perfect - Steven Johnson

Currently reading
Walden - Thoreau

Next Three
The Fractalist - Benoit Mandelbrot
The Killer Angels - Michael Shaara
After the Apocalypse:Stories - Maureen F. McHugh

>> No.3167696

>>3167678
>How Music Works - David Byrne

Was this any good? I've been meaning to check it out.

>> No.3167706

>>3167696
It's interesting if you like the subject matter and/or are a fan of Byrne. I enjoyed it.

>> No.3167944

Last three
>The Golden Bough - Frazer
>Candida - Shaw
>The Social Contract - Rosseau


Currently reading
>Foundation #1 - Asimov

Next three
>Seven Pillars of Wisdom - Lawrence
>The Maltese Fiction - Hammett
>Last and First Men - Stapledon

>> No.3167956

>last 3

1- for whom the bell tolls
2- notes from underground
3- freedom by franzen

>current

white teeth by zadie smith

no real plans for after this one, maybe more zadie smith if i like it.

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3167969

Was:
A Tomb for Boris Davidovich - Danilo Kis
Season of Migration to the North - Tayeb Salih
Religio Medici and Urne Buriall - Sir Thomas Browne

Is:
King Lear
Waiting For The Dark, Waiting For The Light

Will Be:
Too Loud a Solitude - Bohumil Hrabal
Rosencratz & Guildenstern Are Dead - Tom Stoppard
Wretched of the Earth - Frantz Fanon

yea whaddup

>> No.3167980

>>3167969
Nice shit there

>> No.3168050

>>3167676

Depressing, mostly, dude had a rough time and almost everyone was too tired of him to help.

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3168056

Last:
>Venus in Furs
hnnggg, wank-worthiness aside said some dope stuff about gender relations and rock n' roll.

Current:
>Melancholy of Resistance
Shit is crazy son, gonna finish it tonight. Been busting my brain waiting to get home to read this everyday.

Next:
>The Street of Crocodiles
Looking forward to this, remember watching the Quay Bros. animation yonks ago. Bought another copy for a friend so testing the waters.

Slotting down some Walter Benjamin and Lacan on the side.

>mfw people say reading is boring

>> No.3168060

>>3168056
The Street of Crocodiles was pretty fucking intense. The Poles have contributed so much to literature.

>> No.3168263

>>3168060
Might check it out

>> No.3168267

>>3167969
Shit nigguh, that looks fun

>> No.3168269

>>3168267
What book(s)?

>> No.3168299

>>3167969

>Religio Medici and Urne Buriall - Sir Thomas Browne

Thoughts?

>> No.3168324

Last three:
Island of the Sequined Love None by Christopher Moore
Oedipus Tyrannus by Sophocles
The Baron in the Trees by Italo Calvino

Current:
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller

Next 3:
A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn
Sand County Almanac by Aldo Leopold
Howards End by E.M. Forster

>> No.3168339

I can't remember my last three, it was such a long time ago that I read a book.

currently reading The Identity by Milan Kundera.

I like it really much so far.

>> No.3168344

>>3168324
Pretty solid choices

>> No.3168351

>>3167956
check out the film yeralti if you liked notes from underground

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3168401

I'm new to /lit/. Just read the stickies and felt overwhelmed.

>Last three:
The Road - Cormac McCarthy
The Loom of Ruin - Sam McPheeters
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? - Philip K Dick

>Currently:
Nothing

>Potential next reads
On the Road
Fear and Loathing
Ubik - Philip K. Dick
The Hound of the Baskervilles - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Cat's Cradle - Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
The Brothers Karamazov - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Forever Flowing - Vasily Grossman
Something by James Joyce?
Candide - Voltaire
A Streetcar Named Desire - Tennessee Williams

I need help deciding... Holy shit.

>> No.3168405

>>3168401
No you don't.

Don't be one of those that make us choose for you.

Roll a dice or something.

>> No.3168410

>>3168405
Fuck it, I ordered all of them and I'll read whatever arrives first

>> No.3168415

>>3168410
That's the spirit

Welcome by the way

>> No.3168591

>LAST
Journey to the End of the Night (Celine)
The Brothers Karamazov (Dostoyevsky)
The Book of Dave (Self)
>NOW
Confessions of a Mask (Mishima)
>NEXT
The New York Trilogy (Auster)
The Third Policeman (O'Brien)
The Flood (Le Clezio)

>> No.3168618

>>3168591
Read The Flood by Zola

>> No.3168622

>>3168618
Is it actually connected to Le Clezio's book in any way or are you just suggesting it based on the title?

>> No.3168653

>>3168622
>Anonymous 11/22/12(Thu)10:00 No.3168647
>>>3168601
>>proust
>>good
>run-on sentences + life affirmation + past fetishization /= best book ever
>>>
> Anonymous 11/22/12(Thu)10:00 No.3168649
>>>3168644
>>implying that's Dostoevsky best work
>File: 1353570614886.jpg-(31 KB, 300x414, pynchon.jpg)
> OrangeHologram !!1v+ljJqGqF7 11/22/12(Thu)02:50 No.3168117 [Reply]
>which Pynchon book should i read first?
>7 posts omitted. Click here to view.
>>>
> Anonymous 11/22/12(Thu)09:04 No.3168574
>Read Lot 49 first, it's a short easy read.
>>>
> Anonymous 11/22/12(Thu)09:18 No.3168597
>Japanese Insurance Adjuster
>believe
>>>
That's what I say to that

>> No.3169370

>>3168401

You can read Candide in an afternoone.

>> No.3169416

>>3168591
How did you like The Book of Dave? I've considered picking it up a few times but never ended up doing it.

>> No.3169453

>>3169416
Taken as a whole it's brilliant, but it does drag at some points (mainly during the future timeline). The chapters that are just about the eponymous Dave Rudman and his shitty life are fantastic, though; really gut-wrenching. Contrary to popular belief, there's a lot more to Will Self than clever satire and linguistic trickery.

>> No.3169476

Last three
>Wide Sargasso Sea - Jean Rhys
>America (The Book) - Jon Stewart
>Bench Press - Sven Lindqvist

Now reading:
>The Catcher in the Rye - Salinger

Next:
>The Crying of Lot 49 - Quirky Recluse
>Stoner - John Williams (th-thanks, /lit/...)
>Saharan Journey - Sven Lindqvist

>> No.3169479

Last three
>Shadowmarch - Tad Williams
>Shadowplay
>Shadowrise

Currently reading
>Shadowheart

Next three
>Rebdevouz with Rama - Clarke
>Ringworld - Niven
>Neuromancer - Gibson

>> No.3169489

It's amazing how well Foundation has aged. It doesn't have that retrofuturism kind of rust that other old sci-fis have.

>> No.3169503

Last
>Haruki Murakami - Kafka on the Shore (couldn't finish, but I'll probably get back to it at some point.)
>Koji Suzuki - Ring (better than the movie in some ways, but not as impactful)
>Nancy Garden - Annie on My Mind (a really good lesbian YA novel)

Currently
>J.D. Salinger - Franny and Zooey (trifle trifle trifle)

Next Three
>fuck
>if
>I know

>> No.3169522

Last three
>John Dos Passos, Manhattan Transfer
>Wenceslao Fernández Flórez, El bosque animado (The Living Forest)
>Paul Auster, The New York Trilogy

Currently reading
>nothing, I just finished the NY Trilogy earlier today

Next three: Not sure, but maybe:
>François Rabelais, Gargantua & Pantagruel
>Ingeborg Bachmann, Das dreißigste Jahr (The Thirtieth Year)
>Jorge Ibargüengoitia, Los relámpagos de agosto (The Lightning of August)

>> No.3169697

Last:
Withering heights- Bronte
The man in the high castle- Dick
Brave new world- Huxley

Current:
Fahrenheit 451- Bradbury

Next:
Naked lunch- Burroughs
Blood meridian- McCarthy
Enders game- Card

>> No.3169702

>>3169697

I hope you are still in high school.

>> No.3169705

>>3169697
Wuthering - my bad

>> No.3169709

>>3169702
No i am going backwards and reading everything i forgot to read.

>> No.3169751

>>3169705
no, he meant they are teen-wannabe/lit/izen books